The article discusses two innovative desktop apps, LM Studio and GPT4All, which empower users to run various LLM models directly on their computers without needing an internet connection. The benefits include enhanced privacy, as users can utilize chatbots like DeepSeek without sending data to external servers. The apps, supporting multiple open-source LLMs, are user-friendly and free to use, making local AI accessible for everyone. The author shares personal insights from a week of experimentation with these apps, highlighting their potential to mitigate privacy concerns associated with web-based chatbots.
Most of us are used to using internet chatbots like ChatGPT and DeepSeek in one of two ways: via a web browser or via their dedicated smartphone apps.
With the apps, you can run various LLM models on your computer directly. I've spent the last week playing around with these apps and can use DeepSeek without the privacy concerns.
The best thing about both these apps is that they are free for general consumer use, you can run several open-source LLMs in them.
But there are additional benefits to running LLM's locally on your computer, too.
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